Rooney Mara is Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Ok guys, mystery solved! And, this is official, so pay attention! Rooney Mara has been cast in the lead role of the film version of late author Stieg Larsson‘s best-selling book The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Yes, this means that we’re quite done with all that reports about possible Lisbeth! That was boring, right? So, you probably remember that Ellen Page, Mia Wasikowska, Sarah Snook, Sophie Lowe, Lea Seydoux and Katie Jarvis were all in the running for the leading role, Lisbeth Salander, together with (now official movie star) Rooney Mara. Mara, who previously appeared in the comedy Youth in Revolt, this year’s Nightmare on Elm Street remake and is also in the upcoming Fincher’s The Social Network, will portray “brilliant, dangerous and volatile computer hacker Lisbeth Salander,” according to Sony Pictures spokesman Steve Elzer, in a story that goes like this: “Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan.Her body was never found, yet her beloved uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled but resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her beloved uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled but resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.” Let us also remind you that movie already stars Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Robin Wright Penn as a publisher of crusading finance magazine Millennium – Erika Berger, together with Stellan Skarsgard in a role of Martin Vanger. David Fincher’s adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is scheduled for December 21, 2011 release.